Badge.



No. 700,273. Patenfed ano, I902.

E. B. WILMAB TH. BADGE.

(Application filed. Feb. 17, 1902.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES A EDl/VIN B. WILMARTH, OF ATTLEBORO FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO'V. H. BLACKINTON AND COMPANY, OF ATTLEBOBO FALLS, MASSA- CHUSETTSfA' FlRM COMPoSED .OF EMMA W'.'BL'AOKINTON- AND EDWIN B. WILMAR v,

BADGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.700,273, dated May 20, 1902.

Application filed February 1'7, 1902. Serial No. 94,413. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, EDWIN B. WILMARTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Att-leboro Falls, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badges, of which the following isa specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has reference to improvements in badges,and particularly in badgebars. Y

One object of the invention is to so construct a badge-bar having a rectangular opening through which a filling having a name, design, or'emblem may be viewed that the filling may be secured in place without the use of clamps or projections extending over its face.

Another objectof; the "invention is to so construct a badge-bar having such opening that a ribbon'banner havinganinscription, design, or emblem at its upper portion may be so secured to said bar that the inscription, 2 5 design, or emblem may be exposed to view in said opening and that this exposed portion may be protected by transparent material.

Another object of the invention is to simplify the construction of badges of this nature.

The invention consists in the construction of the badge-bar and in the means for sustaining the filling in place.

The invention also consists in such other 3 5 novel features of construction and combination of parts as shall hereinafter be more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l'represents anobverse view of the improved badge. "Fig. 2 represents a reverse 0 view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a bottom edge view of the badge-bar. Fig. 4: represents-a reverse view of a modified form thereof. Fig. 5 represents an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on line 5 5, Fig. 4.,

5 and illustrates the manner of securing the ribbon and the means for protecting the upper portion thereof.

Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In the drawings, 6 represents an ornamental frame'having the open center 7 .preferably rectangular in shape. In constructing the frame the material is slitted along parallel lines, which become the corresponding edges of the opening, and the material between the slits is forced back to form the back plate and closed at its ends by the uncut material 9 9, joining the frame. Below the opening 7 portions of the material are forced backward to form the projections or supports 10 10.

To the back plate Sis secured the pin 11, by which the badge-bar may be fastened to the clothing, and to'the lower rear portion of the frame may be secured the banner or ribbon sustaining bar 12, to which the upper edge of the banner 13 is secured, and in the box formed by reces'sing the back plateis slipped downwardfthefillingle, having any suitable inscription on its face, the lower edge of this filling being engaged and sustained in position by the projections 10 10.

In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings is represented a very desirable and simple modification of this badge. Therein the fasteningpin 11 is secured to the back of the frame 6, above the back plate 8, and the ribbon-bar 12 is omitted, the ribbon 14 being looped over the plate 8 and itsend being secured to its main portion, thus exposing a portion of the ribbon to view in the open panel 7. This portion of the ribbon thus exposed to View may bear any suitable inscription on its face, and the same is preferably protected from Wear by a piece of transparent material 15, sufficiently flexible to be inserted by sliding the same down between theedges'of the-frame and the exposed portion of the ribbon until the lower edge of this transparentmaterial rests on the projections 1 O.10,as.is shown in Fig. 5. By this construction the open panel presents a view of a clear rectangular portion of the filling unobstructed by projections or securing devices of any kind overlapping the surface of the filling, andin the modified construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5 a cheap andsimple construction is produced, a large saving proportionate to the cost of the entire article being effected by the omission of the bar 12 and the saving in labor of making the same and soldering its ends in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A badge comprising a frame having a central portion separated along its upper and lower edges from the main body and bent back from the surface plane of said main body, and projections extending rearwardly from the frame below said central portion.

2. A badge comprising an ornamental frame portion having a recessed panel. open alongits upper and lower edges and connected at its ends to the frame portion and rearwardly-extending projections formed in the material of the frame below said panel.

3. A badge comprising an ornamental frame, having a recessed panel open along its upper and lower edges, projections or supports extending rearwardly from the frame below said panel, and a filling inserted through the open edges of the panel and supported on said projections.

i. A badge comprising a frame, having a recessed panel open along its upper and lower edges and connected at its ends with the frame portion, and a fastening-pin secured to the back of the frame above said panel.

5. A badge comprising a frame, having a recessed panel open along its upper and lower edges and connected at its ends with the frame portion, a fastening device arranged on the frame above said panel, and a ribbon havingits upper portion looped over the panel and secured.

6. The combination with the frame 6 having the back plate 8 separated therefrom along its upper and lower edges and connect ed at its ends and the rearwardly-extending projections 10 10 of the ribbon 1 L secured to said back plate 8 as described, and the transparent protective medium extending through the openings between the back plate and the frame and supported on the projections 10 10.

In testimony whereof I- affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDW'IN l3. VVILMARTH.

Witnesses:

W. STANLEY CAMPBELL, HENRY .T. MILLER. 

